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Flashcards by Wil Anglemyer, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Amendment | A written or formal change to a legal document. |
| Assimilate | to take information. |
| Bias | To be for or against something. |
| Bicameral | To have a body of two chambers. |
| Blockade | To create a barrier. |
| Boomtown | a town of rapid population. |
| Capitalism | The belief of hard work and earning what you work for. |
| Captain of industry | successful well organized business men. |
| Checks and balances | a system used to make all branches equal. |
| Congress | A branch of legislature. |
| Due process of law | The right of testified being wrong. |
| Economics | The system of handling money |
| Emancipated | To pass Through. |
| Enfranchise | To give the right to vote. |
| Enumerated | Not listed. |
| Federalism | Groups and members that join together. |
| Forty-niners | People from the 1849 gold rush. |
| Free enterprise | Private business that goes against the government. |
| Habeas corpus | An unlawful punishment. |
| Industry | Any general business or commercial enterprise |
| Judicial | The branch of government that is responsible for explaining laws |
| Ku Klux Klan | White men from the South who wore white sheets and thought that free-black slaves should not be free |
| Manifest Destiny | The term for attitude prevalent during the 19th century of American expansion |
| Martyr | A religious person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce their religion |
| Monopoly | Taking control over business, traffic, or service granted by the government |
| Nomadic | People who live a lifestyle of moving around a lot |
| Override | Using one's authority to reject or cancel |
| Popular Sovereignty | Using the power of the people through their elected officals |
| Ratify | To make or change an amendment to an officail document |
| Radical | Favoring drastically in political reforms |
| Republicanism | The ideology of governing a society or state as a republic |
| Robber Baron | A term put on 19th century business men |
| Rural | A town wide spaced town containing favorable and unfavorable condition |
| Separation of Powers | The act of vesting the legislative, executive, judicial powers of the government in separate sections |
| Social Darwinism | The choice of natural selection and survival of the fittest in sociology and politics |
| Suffrage | The right to vote in political elections |
| Supreme Court | The main court and court housing system of the United States |
| Tariff | A tax imposed on imported goods and services |
| Taxation Without Representation | When the king of England put taxes on foreign goods to America |
| Urban | A big populated city area |
| Trade Union | Workers who come together to make a certain goal possible |
| Veto | To say no or to not agree with |
| Thomas Jefferson | 3rd president of the United States |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th president of the United States |
| Sacagawea | The woman who came along with Lewis and Clark on their expedition |
| James K. Polk | 11th president of the United States |
| Frederick Douglass | A Famous African American abolitionist/ writer |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | American author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| John Brown | An American abolitionist who believed insurrection was the only way to overthrow slavery in the United States |
| Robert E. Lee | United States Confederate general during the Civil War, who surrendered at the end of the war in Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president of the United States, who was though of to be one of the worst presidents in the U.S |
| Susan B. Anthony | Women's rights activist, who wanted women to have the right to vote |
| Sitting Bull | Tribal chief who led his people of the tribe during years of resistance to the United States government |
| George Custer | A Union Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Know as the commodore, he made his money off of working in the railroad industry |
| John Rockefeller | Co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, in which he made his money of |
| Andrew Carnegie | Scottish industrialist who became the leading steel worker in the United States |
| jamestown | A town in Virginia where the first English settlers lived in |
| Plymouth | The town where the pilgrims landed in |
| Lexington and Concord | A battle between the United States and the British armies that took place on April 19,1775 |
| Erie Canal | A 363 mile long canal that ran from Albany, New York to Buffalo, New York |
| The Alamo | It led to Texas becoming independent, and then to later join the United States |
| Harper's Ferry | A army base in West Virginia where John Brown led troops to invade the base |
| Fort Sumter | Where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired |
| Gettysburg | Where the Battle of Gettysburg happened, after the the battle the famous Gettysburg Address was given here |
| Appomattox Courthouse | A city in Virginia where the Civil War officially ended on April 9, 1865 when Robert E. Lee surrendered there |
| Ford's Theater | The place where Abraham Lincoln was shot |
| Promontory Point, Utah | The point where the Transcontinental Railroad ended marking it with a golden railroad spike |
| Ellis Island and Angel Island | Places in New York and San Francisco where immigrants were processed |
| Declaration of Independence | Signed in the year of 1776 which declared the U.S independent from England |
| Revolutionary War | The war the U.S fought with England at the start of our county |
| Articles of Confederation | The first written constitution of the United States which as a result led to a weak government |
| Great Compromise | The compromise between large and small states over representation which created two houses of congress |
| Passing the Constitution | It had to be ratified by two-thirds of the states passed by the constitutional convention at first |
| Adding the Bill of Rights | They were the first ten amendments to the U.S constitution, first added in 1791, passed by congress then ratified by the states |
| Louisiana Purchase | Purchased by Thomas Jefferson in 1803 from the French, the land was 828,000 SQ miles long which was also a large part of country |
| Missouri Compromise | An agreement in congress to prohibit slavery i n the Northern parts of the Louisiana Purchase but not Missouri |
| Indian Removal Act (The Trail of Tears) | An act signed in 1830, which allowed the U.S to negotiate with the Indian tribes and move them to the West |
| Mexican-American War | A battle between the Mexicans and the Americans in the years of 1846-1848, it was caused by the U.S adding Texas and it resulted in the U.S getting even more land |
| California Gold Rush | Int 1849 gold was found in mining caves in San Francisco which led to the effect of many foreign and American settlers to move out was in hope of finding gold |
| Homestead Act | Gave homesteaders 160 acres of land which they worked on it for five years in order to pay off the land |
| Industrial Revolution | The time in America where nature of the economy changed ways of how machines and manufacturing processes were made |
| Underground Railroad | The system for secretly transporting blacks up to the North from the South |
| Seneca Falls Convention | A women's suffrage act allowing women the right to vote |
| Compromise of 1850 | A fugitive Slave act in Washington D.C where the Slave Trade was abolished |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | The goal to abolish the Missouri compromise and allowed areas on becoming free or slave states |
| Dred Scott V. Sanford | The act were escaped free- slaves should be returned and that blacks weren't citizens |
| Fugitive Slave Act | All free-slaves had to be returned to their masters even in free states |
| Bleeding Kansas | The argument over Kansas becoming a free or slave state |
| Civil War | Lasted from 1861-1865, all battles were fought between the North and the South |
| Emancipation Proclamation | States that all slaves shall be released free |
| Civil War Draft Riots | people started riots over them not wanting to be in the war |
| Gettysburg Adress | Lincolns most famous speech he made read out loud at Gettysburg Battlefield |
| Reconstruction | The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War |
| Civil war Amendments (13th,14th,15th) | Gave blacks the basic rights that the white people had |
| Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad that began it's construction on the East cost then ended in Utah in the West coast |
| Indian Wars | Native American fought back at the American troops while being moved along the way to the west coast |
| Gilded Age | Late 1800's a time of serious social problems and economic wealth |
| Populist Party | A party that appealed to farmers low crop prices, lack of credit failures, and poor marketing |
| Plessy V. Ferguson | Segregation laws were constitutional |
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